Marketing and Communications Veteran Brings Vision and Experience to Guide Team through Major Phase of Growth and Development

Westborough, Mass., June 17, 2013 — /BackupReview.info/ — ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (www.exagrid.com), the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, announced today that it has hired Dana Prestigiacomo as Senior Vice President of Marketing.

Prestigiacomo joins ExaGrid during an exciting phase of growth and development as the company continues to expand both product offerings and global market reach. ExaGrid’s recent growth, fueled by increasing demand for grid-based, scalable disk backup systems with deduplication, has prompted the company to build out its executive management team with proven industry leaders. She will take the lead on ExaGrid’s worldwide marketing and communications functions.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Dana to our team, and the timing could not be more perfect,” said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid. “She brings a great mix of marketing experience, vision and proven results to our executive team, and her expertise will be vital as we continue to aggressively expand into new territories and grow worldwide market share. We are thankful she is here to help guide ExaGrid through its next major phase of growth.”

Prestigiacomo comes to ExaGrid with experience embodying a mix of small, midsize and large technology companies, including IBM, CA Technologies, Thomson Reuters, Acronis, IntraLinks, and more. She has led teams in developing cutting-edge marketing lead generation capabilities, metrics, partner programs, and complete company re-branding.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.:
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimized for performance, scalability and price. ExaGrid is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive forklift upgrades, achieve the fastest full system restores and tape copies, and rapidly restore files, VMs and objects in minutes. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 6,500 systems installed at more than 1,700 customers, and more than 320 published customer success stories.